Sins as Scarlet

"A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA." Anthony Horowitz, author of Magpie MurdersIn this follow-up to Nicols Obregons critically acclaimed Blue Light Yokohama, Inspector Iwata returnsin a murder case in his new home of Los Angeles.After a brutal murder investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the hopefully sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. But even though hes left his old life behind, he still has to make a living and Iwata sets up shop as a private investigator. But murder still follows him. Approached by an old contact whose daughter has been murdered and the case laid to restunsolvedIwata agrees to take on the case out of loyalty. But what seems initially like a cold-blooded murder takes a different turn when a homeless witness recalls the murderers parting words: Im sorry.From the depths of Skid Row to the fatal expanse of the Sonoran Desert, Iwata tracks the disparate pieces of a mysterious and heartbreaking puzzle. But the more he unearths, the clearer it is that things are not as they appear and people are not as they seem. Lives untangle, fates converge, and blood is spilled as Inspector Iwata returns. More Praise for Sins as Scarlet: "Masterpiecethats the only way to describe Sins as Scarlet. Obregns brilliant novel is, at once, a classic noir, a psychological thriller and a riveting examinationsometimes dark, sometimes moving to the point of tearsof life in a less-than-angelic Los Angeles. And what a delight to see Inspector Kosuke Iwata back again! You will love every minute spent with this one-of-a-kind hero." Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Burial Hour"In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly, Sins as Scarlet lays bare the brui